Music, books (early C20th is a fave), gigs, travel (must get to Tokyo...), history (but not the future). And shiny guitars.
I'd like to meet:
THE GOOD: The godlike Caesars, hail them!!! Chad Shiny; The Mackenzies / Filthy Tongues; Charlie Burchill; Joakim Berg - a full-on genius.
THE BAD: Tony Blair - he's gone but I still hate his smarmy guts. Robert Mugabe - Satan in a limo; And all the sad, ugly faux-indie bands that seem to be all the rage. Was that what we fought the Indie Wars for?
THE UGLY: Uh! Keep away, you're cramping my style! No, really, I mean it.
Kent - Socker
Music:
Kent (from Sweden), the Psychedelic Furs, Shiny Toy Guns, David Bowie, Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, Simple Minds, Sohodolls, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Birthday Massacre, Social Distortion, the Slingbacks, Isa & the Filthy Tongues, Girl in a Coma, Love Spit Love, the Sisters of Mercy, the Motorcycle Boy, OMD, BAD, XC-NN and loads of super-cool Swedes: Elin Sigvardsson, Marit Bergman, Caesars, Last Days of April, Teddybears STHLM, Yvonne, the Cardigans, the Sounds.
Movies:
The Seventh Seal, the Wild Bunch, anything with Stanley Baker, Insomnia (the Swedish one), Das Boot, Spinal Tap, Swingers, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Hamlet (the Branagh one, please), Ghost World, Brighton Rock, Sunset Boulevard, Black Angel 2, Kontroll. Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo and Scarlett Johansson make me faint.... And Ingmar Bergman was a genius.
Television:
TV mostly sucks, but Green Wing, Scrubs, My Name is Earl and The Mighty Boosh rule. And the Simpsons too. TV needs more ice hockey.
Books:
F Scott Fitzgerald, who bestrode this narrow world like a colossus!!! Joseph Conrad, Richard Aldington, Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Robert Frost.
Heroes:
Joakim Berg, Charlie Burchill, Chad Shiny, Greta Garbo, Richard Butler, TE Lawrence, John Ashton. Bit fond of Joan of Arc too, bless her.
